The Key Moment
October 3, 2024
Making smart choices immediately after closing on a trawler can help improve your boating experience.
Making smart choices immediately after closing on a trawler can help improve your boating experience.
Survey approval by an insurance carrier clears your path to trawler ownership.
Most often, after a trawler is surveyed, negotiations will follow to allow for repairs and close a sale.
When a pre-purchase survey finds big-ticket problems, there are smart ways to keep the deal alive.
Allotting time for a post-survey recap is a vital step in the boat-buying process.
A pre-purchase haulout is a great time to learn more about a boat’s below-water features and is a vital part of the survey process.
A pre-purchase propulsion prognosis is an important step in the buying process.
It is imperative that you hire the best surveyor available and that your search to identify that person is given priority treatment as soon as you are ready to write up an offer.
Most purchase and sale agreements stipulate that your deposit is due once the seller accepts your written offer. The amount is normally 10 percent of the contracted price, and typically, it must be received into the broker’s trust account within three business days.
The three-stateroom, semidisplacement model has a range of power options and a low air draft.
A solar-power system on our classic trawler lets us spend time moored or anchored with more than enough juice to meet our energy needs.
America’s Great Loop Cruisers’ Association has been helping boaters complete the ultimate voyage for a quarter century.
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It is called a razor because it shaves away unnecessary complexities, providing a simple solution to complicated questions.
Remembering Lifelong Marine Journalist Chris Caswell
A Master of Quiet Cruising
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